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- Title
Satellites for What? Creating User Communities for Space-based Data in France: The Case from LERTS to CESBIO.
- Authors
Cirac-Claveras, Gemma
- Abstract
This article uses a French case to explore the who, how, and why of satellite remote-sensing development and its transition towards routine utilization in the domain of ecosystems ecology. It discusses the evolution of a community of technology developers promoting remote-sensing capabilities (mostly sponsored by the French space agency). They attempted to legitimate quality scientific practices, establish the authority of satellite remote-sensing data within academic institutions, and build a community of technology users. This article, hence, is intended to contribute to historical interest in how a community of users is constructed for a technological system.
- Subjects
ARTIFICIAL satellites; EUROPEAN artificial satellites; REMOTE sensing
- Publication
Technology & Culture, 2018, Vol 59, Issue 2, p203
- ISSN
0040-165X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/tech.2018.0027